Max Chandler-Mather

And I do think we can always do better at articulating that and recognizing that pain.

So there's that.

I think also there's an organizational question, like for us really to reach people, we do need to be at their doors.

We do need to be at their communities at a much bigger scale than we are right now.

And not there to preach or to tell people what to think, but literally just to ask what's going on in their lives and prove that we're an institution and a movement that in the first instance, once their politics dictated and directed by what people say they want changed in their lives.

There's that as well.

And then finally, I think there's a lot of work to do to demonstrate that as a political movement, we are in opposition to the political establishment.

And I think there's a lot of basic things we can do around.

I think collectively, none of us should be flying business class for free.

All of us should be giving up a part of their wage to front field meal programs in our communities.

We should be giving up a lot of the perks that come with being a politician and

And I think we could do that collectively as a party.

And that would be very meaningful for people because that demonstrates, I think, that we're willing to put our money where our mouth is.

So all of those things, I think, would go a long way to helping.

And, you know, there's a lot of Greens MPs across the country who do that.

But I think it's reasonable that I think anyone in the Greens would recognise right now that we could always do better in the context of a collapsing major parties and a surging One Nation.

Well, I think people feel a distinct lack of hope at the moment.

I mean, and you know, it's just genuinely understandable.

Like if you're a millennial, you have experienced, especially over the last 10 years, massive declines in living standards.

Every time house prices go up another percent, that's another loss of hope that you'll ever be able to afford a home.